Two Festival Gigs Coming Up!
Michele Returning To Dean Martin Festival
Michele will be returning to Steubenville, Ohio, for the 2009 Dean Martin Festival from June 18–21. She is scheduled to perform from June 18–20. Please return soon for more information.
Dean Martin was born on June 7, 1917 in Steubenville, the son of Italian immigrants. He dropped out of high school in the tenth grade and began working in one of the local steel mills. He fought as a boxer under the name Kid Crochet and worked a variety of jobs in local clubs. At age 17 he began singing in Ohio nightclubs outside of his hometown and eventually met success singing in the clubs in New York City. In 1940, he changed his name to Dean Martin.
In 1944, Dean Martin secured a regular 15-minute radio program in New York. Two years later his single Which Way Did My Heart Go? was a hit. The same year, Martin met comedy partner Jerry Lewis while performing in Atlantic City. The duo became popular, with Martin playing the straight man and Lewis playing the fool. Their partnership lasted for a decade, during which they made 16 movies.
Martin then resumed his singing career. That’s Amore was hugely successful in 1953. The year 1958 was extremely productive, as he acted in his first drama The Young Lions, began hosting specials for NBC, was a popular entertainer at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, and released his song Volare. The following year saw the founding of the Rat Pack with their movie Some Came Running. Rat Pack hit Ocean’s Eleven premiered in 1960.
In 1964 Martin’s Everybody Loves Somebody topped the charts. The following year The Dean Martin Show began as a weekly variety show that ran for eight years. made his 55th film, Cannonball Run Part II, in 1984.
Dean Martin died on Christmas Day in 1995.
More information may be found at:
www.deanmartinsteubenville.com |
